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Paul Felix Lazarsfeld papers, 1930-1976
75500 itemsCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, technical reports, memoranda, questionnaires, interview schedules, personal and professional documents, several photographs, one tape recording, and printed materials. The correspondence files contain letters to colleagues and researchers such as Bernard Berelson, Robert Lynd, Robert Merton, and Frank Stanton. The subject files document Lazarsfeld's many research projects such as the Admissions Officers Project, 1964-1970, the Planning Project for Advanced Training in Social Research, 1950-1955, and his first major endeavor, the Princeton Radio Research Project, 1937-1940. There are complete records for his 1954-1955 study on McCarthyism's effect on college teaching. These original materials consisting of correspondence, interview schedules, and questionnaires contain many detailed comments which could not be included in the published version of this study, THE ACADEMIC MIND (1958). Numerous files relate to Lazarsfeld's position as Associate Director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research (BASR). There are manuscripts of books, research papers, lectures, and articles by Lazarsfeld as well as by his students and colleagues.
Karl Polanyi papers, 1937-1963, bulk 1947-1963
5.88 linear feetCarnegie Corporation of New York records, circa 1872-2015
3000 linear feetMinutes, correspondence, annual reports, press releases, financial records, photographs, memorabilia, audiovisual, digital and printed materials document the philanthropic activities and administration of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The collection is actively growing, primarily through regular document transfers from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Andrew Carnegie's biographical information and personal philanthropic activity can be found in Series VII. In addition, his pre-1911 gifts, most notably his donations for libraries and church organs, can be found on microfilm (Series II), in the Home Trust Company Records (VI.A), and Financial Record Books (I.C.1). Grant files (Series III.A), which comprise the bulk of the collection) provide information on projects and institutions founded, endowed or supported by the Corporation. The Special Initiatives series (Series IV) contains the records of task forces, commissions and councils, formed by the Corporation mostly during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s to address specific issues. The Corporation's records include those of other Carnegie philanthropic organizations (Series VI), including the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Home Trust Company, both of which shared staff, officers, and office space with the Corporation for a period of time.
Subseries IV.D. Carnegie Council on Children, 1969-1979 1 box
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The Carnegie Council on Children (CCC) was established in 1972 by the Corporation to undertake a broad investigation of what American society was doing to and for children, and what government, business, and other organizations and individuals could do to protect and support family life. The Council, which ended its work in 1979, consisted of 11 persons drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, including law, economics, anthropology, child development, history, and pediatrics. Its chairman and idrector was Kenneth Keniston, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Human Development at MIT. Five major report's emerged from the Council's deliberations. The first, an overall analysis of the position of children in American society, entitled All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure, was issued in 1977, together with policy recommendations for ways in which children's' needs could be met in the coming years. Other books issued by the Council included Small Futures: inequality, children, and the limits of liberal reform, by Richard H. de Lone, and The Unexpected Minority: handicapped children in America, by John Gliedman and William Roth. (from 1979 Annual Report)